the Suicide Notes tells it all and again Geoff Johns speaks from my perspective. The villains are people too. They have reasons to who they are. And sometimes society turned them into what they are, sometimes they aren't what society says or thinks they are, and sometimes after their debts to society are paid to society they should be brought back into society to become productive citizens. Redemtion

There are the unredemable exceptions to the rule, the Joker is blatant 1st round draft pick.